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It seems obvious that if you are hiring a juggler, a hiring manager should watch candidates … actually juggle (H/T to DeMarco & Lister). Similarly, if you are hiring a software engineer, a hiring...
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So… Let’s say you have at least 10 people interviewing for a job and you have 20 minutes each. Hiring good devs is notoriously difficult. You’ve said what one *shouldn’t* do, but what *should* you do?...
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Ask for a code sample. Sure you only have 20 minutes in an interview, but you can spend all weekend perusing code written by your favored candidates. An interview is the only time you get to see...
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I don’t claim to have all that much experience in the workplace but I just completed an internship at Microsoft and I was pretty surprised at their hiring priorities. I found that, much to my surprise,...
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Comment on Rudy: An iTunes love story by Charles Knutson
Just re-read this article after a long break since writing it. Something is nagging at me, and I don’t know how to resolve it. Near the end I state the following: “…consuming only 1.29 GB of hard disk...
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